Workshop on Linguistic Foundations of Narration in Spoken and Sign Languages

Sun Mar 3 18:15:46 UTC 2013

DGfS-Workshop: Linguistic Foundations of Narration in Spoken and Sign Languages (AG 8)

Organization: Annika Hübl and Markus Steinbach (University of Göttingen)
Languages of the conference: English and International Sign

Conference Program

Wednesday 13.03.2013

14:00 – 14:30
Annika Hübl and Markus Steinbach
Narration across modalities

14:30 – 15:00
Sonja Zeman
What’s a “narration”? A linguistic perspective on a basic narratological concept

15:00 – 15:30
Anita Fetzer
Narration in (spoken) political discourse

15:30 – 16:00
Svetlana Petrova
Prospectivity in discourse

16:00 – 16:30
Coffee

16:30 – 17:00
Emar Maier
Fictional discourse representation

17:00 – 17:30
Regine Eckardt
As time goes by – temporal links between free indirect speech and narrative frame

17:30 – 18:30
Philippe Schlenker  (invited speaker)
Role shift, context shift and formal iconicity

Thursday 14.03.2013

09:00 – 10:00
Christiane von Stutterheim (invited speaker)
Grammatical foundations of narrative structures – a cross-linguistic study

10:00 – 10:30
Monique Lambert
Role of subordination in the information structure of a narrative: Comparison between French and English

10:30 – 11:00
Naoko Tomita
Language-specificity in the logic of coherence and language structure

11:00 – 11:30
Coffee

11:30 – 12:00
Thomas Weskott and Susanna Salem
Effects of Free Indirect Discourse on Language Comprehension

12:00 – 12:30
Franziska Köder
The relation between reported speech, pretense and metarepresentation: A developmental perspective

12:30 – 13:00
Choonkyu Lee
Story time, salience, and situation model

Friday 15.03.2013

11:30 – 12:00
Nina-Kristin Pendzich and Annika Herrmann
Between narrator and protagonist in fables of German Sign Language (DGS)

12:00 – 12:30
Gemma Barberà and Josep Quer
Contrastive topics and role shift in Catalan Sign Language (LSC) narratives

12:30 – 13:00
Silva H. Ladewig, Jana Bressem and Cornelia Müller
Ways of constructing action in multimodal communication

13:00 – 13:30
Vadim Kimmelman and Anna Sáfár
Manual holds: An analysis of two sign languages and two genres

13:30 – 14:00
Ronnie Wilbur and Evie Malaia
A new technique for assessing narrative prosodic effects in sign languages

14:00 – 14:30
Christian Rathmann
Perspective shift, discourse modes and temporal interpretation in Sign Languages

Program as pdf: http://www.sfb632.uni-potsdam.de/dgfs-2013/AGs/AG8+program.pdf
Website of the Annual Meeting of the German Linguistic Society (DGfS): http://www.sfb632.uni-potsdam.de/dgfs-2013/index_en.html